I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who for many thousands of years, in all countr….

"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or t….

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair..

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-tellin….

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick..

In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theolog….

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other..

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry ….

I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and ma….

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them..

Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I ….

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this so….

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of hea….

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road..

I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world..

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself..

The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly lo….

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain….

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power..

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and ….

In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to ….